Sciences and Technologies Studies Laboratory

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Projects

Projects FNS

Neurosciences and psychiatry: images, techniques, clinic
2006 - 2011
Applicant : Vincent Barras
Other partners : Emilie Bovet, Vincent Pidoux

Politique de recherche et identités académiques: la nouvelle gestion publique en action
2004 - 2007 (36 mois)
Applicant : J.-Ph. Leresche, J. Widmer (UniFr)
Other partners : M. Benninghoff, P. Sormani
Division I

Gender Practices and Perspectives: The Paradoxes of Equality
2008 - 2011 (36 mois)
Applicant : Roux, Patricia. Co-requérantes: Cynthia Kraus; Janine Dahinden; Margaret Maruani; Fenneke Reysoo
ProDoc Training Module Grant for the Swiss-French Doctoral School in Gender Studies, funded by the SNF.

Direction: C. Kraus. Host institution: CEG LIEGE, UNIL. Partner institutions: universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva, and the Graduate Institute in Geneva. This Doctoral School was part of the Swiss Doctoral School in Gender Studies (leading house: University of Basel, Direction: Prof. Andrea Maihofer and Regina Wecker) funded by the Conférence Universitaire Suisse (CUS)

Related grant of CHF 45'000.- (for the 3 years), granted by the Direction of the UNIL.

Making up Heterosexuality: A History of Female Desire "Disorders" in French-speaking Switzerland from the 1960's to the Present
2015 - 2018 (36 mois)
Applicant : Kraus, Cynthia. Co-requérant.e.s: Vincent Barras et Véronique Mottier
Other partners : Dr Christel Gumy, Chercheuse senior (01.03.2015-31.10.2016); Dr Stéphanie Pache, Chercheuse senior (01.01.2016-31.12.2016)
Output data: http://p3.snf.ch/project-153080

International conference organized in the context of this project: https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1478689266130256

Research policy in a learning society
2002 - 2003
Applicant : J.-Ph. Leresche
Other partners : M. Benninghoff

Explaining change and learning in research funding policies in Switzerland. A comparative perspective
2000 - 2003 (36 mois)
Applicant : D. Braun, J.-Ph. Leresche
Other partners : M. Benninghoff, R. Ramuz, V. Tattini
Programme prioritaire "Demain la Suisse"

Gender as an Engine of Discovery: A History of the Making of Cerebral Adolescence from the 1950's to the Present
2011 - 2014 (41 mois)
Applicant : Kraus, Cynthia. Co-requérant: Vincent Barras
Other partners : Christel Gumy, CanDoc (15.04.2011-14.08.2014)
Output data: http://p3.snf.ch/project-134670

Doctoral dissertation: Jeune dans sa tête. Une histoire critique du cerveau adolescent
Gumy C., 2015., Université de Lausanne, Faculté des lettres, Barras V., Kraus C. (dir.).

International conference organized in the context of this project: http://www.unil.ch/stslab/neurogenderings3

Knowledge Translation through Tool-Supported Practices in Health Care : Production and Use of Self-Management Tools in Chronic Disease. The case of Diabetes
2015 - 2019 (45 mois)
Applicant : Michèle Grossen, Francesco Panese et Bernard Burnand
Other partners : Vincent Pidoux, Giada Danesi et Mélody Pralong
The pace of development of new or updated knowledge has accelerated in modern medicine. As a result, Knowledge Translation in Medicine (KTM) plays an important role in ensuring effective high quality healthcare, as well as patients' safety. However, the amount of available new information makes it difficult for busy physicians to identify important information. This creates what is referred to as a know-do gap, i.e., a gap between findings in clinical research and actual healthcare practice. The wish to address this scientific, health and social issue in an interdisciplinary perspective is at the origin of the creation of the research group I-KnoT ("Improving health Knowledge Translation").Assuming that an interdisciplinary approach to KTM may renew our understanding of processes of "knowledge translation", this research project draws on sociocultural psychology and science and technology studies to reframe mainstream research into KTM. Considering that human cognition is a situated practice, these complementary approaches both focus on the tools that mediate human activity. Our assumption is then that conceiving knowledge as a situated practice mediated by tools enables us to renew the understanding of the processes of "knowledge translation" and possible gaps.Concretely, this research project concerns "know-do-gaps" in the field of diabetes and considers: (a) gaps between professional designers and healthcare practitioners; (b) gaps between healthcare practitioners and patients. We assume that these gaps are good indicators to understand more general processes involved in gaps in "knowledge translation". Diabetes appeared to be an appropriate research field since the patients' self-management of diabetes and their relationship with healthcare practitioners heavily rely on the use of various tools which are expected to enhance efficient and effective care and self-care. The production and use of these tools, that we call Diabetes Self-Management Tools (DSMT), are central to this research project. By linking elem

Knowledge Translation through Tool-Supported Practices in Health Care: Production and Use of Self-Management Tools in Chronic Disease. The case of Diabetes
2015 - 2018 (36 mois)
Applicant : Prof. Michèle Grossen
Other partners : F. Panese; B. Burnand; V. Pidoux; G. Danesi, M. Pralong
http://p3.snf.ch/project-156509

European Programs

Restructuring Higher Education and Scientific Innovation (RHESI)
2010 - 2013 (42 mois)
Applicant : D. Braun (IEPI), M. Benninghoff (OSPS)
Other partners : A. Gorga (IEPI), R. Ramuz (OSPS)
The project will investigate how recent reforms of higher education systems in different European countries are affecting the direction and organisation of scientific research through the study of changing authority relations in universities and scientific fields. These changes are likely to influence the nature of scientific innovations and research coordination in different ways across Europe and so affect the roles of universities in emerging "knowledge societies".

Projet européen du 5éme programme cadre, ESST/EPFL et IDHEAP et partenaires de Finlande, Allemagne, Gréce et Autriche
http://www.egov-project.org/partners.htm
2001 - 2003
Projet européen du 5ème programme cadre.
One-stop government refers to the integration of public services from a citizen's point of view. Currently, the realisation of online one-stop government in Europe is in an infant state. The eGOV project recognises that online one-stop government can only realise its full potential if supported by an integrated, open and extensible platform. The aim of the project is to develop and evaluate this platform, which will include the next generation of governmental portals, the service repository and service creation environment, the Governmental Markup Language, and the supporting network architecture. The use of the platform is expected to provide significant benefits to both citizens and public authorities. This platform will be evaluated in three European counties by two ministries in charge of realising online one-shop government, as well as other public authorities.

Steering universities (SUN)
2005 - 2008
Applicant : Catherine Paradeise (LATTS-Paris-Est)
Other partners : M. Benninghoff, G. Goastellec, L. Baschung
Projet de recherche dans le cadre du Réseau d'excellence PRIME (Policies for research and innovation in the moves towards the European research area), 6ème Programme-cadre

Who Governs Science? Scientists, Public Authorities, Economic and Social Actors in the Science Policy Making Process in France and Great-Britain (1961-2010)
2011 - 2013 (36 mois)
Applicant : J. Aust, C. Crespy
Other partners : E. Picard, M. Le Roux, M. Jouvenet, B. Hauray
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France

PERPLEXUS

MASIS
2010 - 2013
Applicant : Fabienne Crettaz von Roten
Monitoring Policy and Research Activities on Science in Society in Europe
(leading house Cowi, Université de Aarhus (Denmark)
The core objective of the project is to identify trends, strengths and weaknesses, as well as any Science-in-Society-specific barriers impeding the realisation of the European Research Area. MASIS project sets up a network of national correspondents (experts in the field) that will provide a description, analysis and annotated commentary on the national landscapes of Science in Society (SiS) policy and research activities and capacities in the EU Member States and countries associated with the EU's research Framework Programme.

POCARIM - 290770 - Exploitation
2011 - 2014
Applicant : Dominique Vinck
In order to contribute to the understanding of SSH research and research careers teams of researchers from 13 countries1 came together between 2011 and 2014 to collaborate on the project 'Mapping the Population, Careers, Mobilities and Impacts of Advanced Research Degree Graduates in the Social Sciences and Humanities' (POCARIM). Across the 13 countries we reviewed existing statistical population data, research literature and policy, and carried out a large-scale survey and hundreds of interviews with PhD holders in SSH fields working in a range of sectors and organisations in a variety of roles. In this Final Report we present the key findings and recommendations emerging from POCARIM. First we address the nature of SSH careers and movements between labour market sectors. Secondly, we look at the impacts of SSH PhD graduates' work, both on their environments and on their own careers. We looked, thirdly, at the nature and role of networking in SSH work and careers. Fourthly, we present our findings on the degree, nature and outcomes of cross-disciplinary activity in the POCARIM population. The fifth theme we present looks at the degree, nature and impact of international mobility and other cross-border activities. The sixth theme looks at our findings with regard to partnering, parenting and other caring responsibilities. structure. Finally, it is important to acknowledge that many of the POCARIM findings, regarding for example career paths and mobilities, were both country and discipline specific.

POCARIM - 290770 - overhead

Gendring the Academy and Research:combating Career Instability and Asymmetries
2014 - 2017 (36 mois)
Applicant : Le Feuvre Nicky
Other partners : Sabine Kradolfer, Farinaz Fassa, Gaële Goastellec, Maria De Rio Carral, Michaël Posse
The GARCIA Project is concerned with the implementation of actions in European Universities and research centres to promote a gender culture and combat gender stereotypes and discriminations. The project runs from February 2014 to January 2017.

By taking into account the involved organisations, but also their broader national context, this project aims to develop and maintain research potential and skills of both, women and men researchers, in order to sustain the quality of their working conditions.

Particular attention is given to the early stages of academic and scientific career. The project focuses on both, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) disciplines to assure that the aim of transforming academia and research towards a more gender equal environment can be extended to all levels of the institution by putting into practice the best systemic organisational approaches.

Macro, meso and micro level analyses will be followed by the implementation of action plans, which are mainly directed to: gender regimes; awareness raising on gendered practices; gender equality in management and decision making; the phenomenon of Leaky Pipeline; the implicit gendered subtexts in evaluating excellence.

Others projects

Sustainibility of sustainable behaviours
2015 - 2018 (36 mois)
Applicant : Fabrizio Butera, Alain Clémence, Fabienne Crettaz von Roten
Organisme subventionnaire : Canton de Vaud, Romande Energie & Université de Lausanne, Volteface program (Suisse)

Embroidering craft and technological knowledges to interculturally enhance pedagogical and archival practices
2015 - 2016 (12 mois)
grant-giving organisation : Swiss Bilateral Programme (Switzerland)
The project consolidates of cooperative scientific networks between researchers located in Switzerland and Colombia around digitization for craftwork; this is through experimental workshops (with researches and embroiderers) and fieldwork. These encounters focus on questions about the ways in which craft knowledges and practices associated with the design of technologies can dialogue. Exploratory workshops are linking various actors with craft textile materialities and electronic elements.

Modelling the distribution of knowledge and attitudes in energy issues: A computer simulation and an empirical survey
2013 - 2014
grant-giving organisation : UNIL-EPFL (Switzerland)
Applicant : A. Clémence (UNIL), Fabienne Crettaz von Roten (UNIL), J.-F. Molinari (EPFL)
Other partners : Henri-Arnaud Thévenet (UNIL), Cindell Junod (UNIL), Okan Yilmaz (EPFL)
The main objective of the project is to explore different models for explaining the differentiation, between groups, and the homogenisation, within groups, of knowledge and attitudes about some facets of energy issues.

CDP_DDZ - Contribution UNIL

grant-giving organisation : ASSH (Switzerland)
Establishing a technical support platform for researchers working in human and social sciences

Contracts and Mandates

Staatliche Förderung ausser-universitärer Forschungseinrichtungen am Beispiel des Niederlande und Deutschlands: Kritische Begutachtung eines Förderinstruments

2001 - 2001
grant-giving organisation : Conseil suisse de la science et de la technologie (CSST)
Applicant : D. Braun
Other partners : M. Benninghoff

Research in the field of biomedicine: institutions, discourse and politics

2012 - 2013
grant-giving organisation : Conseil Suisse de la Science et de la Technologie (Switzerland)
Applicant : M. Benninghoff
Other partners : R. Ramuz; A. Lutz
This project aims to describe the institutional space of biomedical research in Switzerland: identifying the actors, their strategies and policies, as well as issues and controversies related to the development of this field of research. It also aims to understand how biomedical research has been institutionalized since the early 2000s and how it is interpreted by actors

Scientists conducting experiments on animals in Switzerland

2015 - 2018
grant-giving organisation : Support à la recherche SSP (UNIL) (Switzerland)
Various changes are observed in the practice of animal experimentation in Switzerland since the early 2000s: certification courses for scientists, 3Rs principles and engagement activities towards society. This research seeks to examine scientists' perceptions of these obligations, and the mechanisms of interaction between the representations of those obligations.
This research is carried out in collaboration with conductors of the accreditation training in French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland.
The research received, for its launch, a support to research from the SSP faculty.

Zusammenlegung aller Bundeskompetenzen für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation in einem Departement

grant-giving organisation : Conseil suisse de la science et de la technologie (CSST)
Applicant : D. Braun
Other partners : T. Griessen, L. Baschung, M. Benninghoff

Evaluation de l'instrument "Projets de coopération et d'innovation"

2007 - 2008
grant-giving organisation : Conférence universitaire suisse (CUS)
Applicant : J.P. Leresceh, M. Benninghoff, G. Goastellec
Other partners : F. Joy-Cagnard, R. Ramuz, P. Sormani

'Le projet triangulaire lémanique' : analyse historique et institutionnelle d'un projet de coopération universitaire

2009 - 2011
grant-giving organisation : Unil, Unige, EPFL, Fondation Jeantet, Fondation Leenaards
Applicant : J.-Ph. Leresche
Other partners : F. Joye-Cagnard, M. Benninghoff, R. Ramuz

la recherche dans les Hautes écoles spécialisées (HES)

2010 - 2011
grant-giving organisation : Office fédéral de la formation professionnelle et de la technologie (OFFT)
Applicant : U. Kiener, M. Benninghoff
Other partners : C. Mueller, R. Feli

L'efficacité des mesures de financement dans les domaines de la formation supérieure, de la recherche et de la technologie. Perspectives européennes comparées et leçon pour la Suisse

2004 - 2004
grant-giving organisation : Groupement de la science et de la recherche (GSR)
Applicant : Benninghoff, M.., Perellon, J., Leresche, J.-P.